On March 12-13 and March 15, the Crow Creek MGA played its second annual Ryder Cup competition. Thirty-two members were divided into two 16-man teams.
The team captains were Brian Nordberg for the red team and David Hannah for the white team. The captains met before the tournament to select teams in a draft and to match up players for all three days events. Each event was based on a match play format, where the winner received one point and a tie resulted in each team receiving a half point.

By Mary Lou Miller
Special to the Beacon
On March 3, 40 members of the Sea Trail Ladies Golf Association and two guests from Carolina National Golf Course attended a three-hour workshop presented by Veronica Karaman of Pinehurst. The workshop, “Break through to your ‘A’ game,” provided valuable insight about the importance of swing thoughts and how they can affect your golf game.

The Beachcombers played a Stableford tournament Friday at Meadowlands. The winners with a score of +24 were Bob Byrne, Jack Goin, Bob Brownley and Bill Cameron. In second at +19.5 were Dennis Keane, Charlie Shore, Tom Culverwell and Sid Silver. Lowest round: Charlie Shore at 85. Lowest net: 64 by Ed Hennessey. Most over their points: Bob Brownley at +9.5 and Stu Cleveland at +9. Ed Hennessey was golfer of the week with a net 64 and +7.5.

Way back in December 2002, I wrote a column about the Brunswick Ladybirds, a women’s golf league founded in 1991.
Last week, I played in a Ladybird tournament at the Oak Island Club and had an absolute blast playing in a foursome with Denni Maynard (Farmstead/Meadowlands), Robin Klestinec (Oak Island) and Rose Seguin (Oak Island). I had played with Denni before, but I met Robin and Rose for the first time that morning.

On April 5, the ACC All-Stars will appear in Bolivia for a basketball game at Brunswick Community College. This year’s roster is headlined by ACC Player of the Year Tyler Zeller and the seniors from UNC Chapel Hill, Duke’s Miles Plumlee and N.C State’s C.J. Williams and Alex Johnson.
The doors open at 6 p.m. and the game begins at 7:30 p.m.

The early spring Brunswick County pier and surf action has been dominated by the good news of strong sea mullet runs. Last year was a good year for them, too, and with catches of spot and croaker seeming to decline each year, they are rapidly becoming our most dependable panfish.
Sea mullet, also called whiting or Virginia mullet in North Carolina, are a generally small but delicious fish caught from the northern Atlantic Ocean beaches (where northern anglers call them kingfish) all the way down around into the Gulf of Mexico.

There is no doubt spring is firmly here. It has pretty much been here since November.
The interesting story this season is going to be how the fish react to such a mild winter. Last winter was extremely cold and the resulting fishing was below average. Will the opposite hold true this season? One fact is for sure: the fish will be arriving well ahead of schedule.
There are reports of good catches of Mahi-mahi off Charleston, S.C., which means those fish are soon to be off our coast; typically not seen until May.